Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first army , consisting mostly of the Kislevites and fast-moving mounted troops , marched with all speed to Praag in the hope of relieving the siege . |
| 2 | I am delighted that the recently privatised Harland and Wolff now has the longest order book in its history , with £565 million worth of orders , that it is competing successfully with the Koreans and the Japanese , that the future of 2,500 of its people is assured and that it is the premier shipyard in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | These three correspond most to the expectations and hopes previously voiced by bishops and theological faculties . |
| 4 | The Museum , although having a modern exterior , was originally built around a Moorish bath-house Commemorative plaques of the Rock 's historical past have been posted all over the streets and buildings . |
| 5 | IN THE tunnel between Gloucester Road and Earls Court , the train-supposedly bound for Richmond-has come to a halt : 25 minutes pass , a hot , cross silence broken only by the coughs and tuts and groans and rattling Evening Standards of disgruntled passengers ( sorry , ‘ customers ’ ; London Underground now wishes to refer to the sad user of the subterranean network as a ‘ customer , ’ dictionary definition : n. one who buys ) . |
| 6 | On the first floor , he has devised one large empty space , its two side walls an uninterrupted 200 feet in length , broken only by the staircases and other services springing through its centre . |
| 7 | On Tuesday they all got together in the Trades and Labour Hall and they were very excited at that stage . |
| 8 | Material draped all round the walls and swords and things hanging on them . |
| 9 | There was silence for a moment , punctuated only by the grunts and wheezes of the two ancient dames , until Gertrude said : |
| 10 | Between the fourth and eighth week all the main organs are formed together with the limbs and beginnings of skeletal structure . |
| 11 | With their emphasis on a world of forest spirits and magical dominations , they seem to have differed little from the experiences and practices of mainland Northern Europe . |
| 12 | It may therefore be proposed that BRAC 's programme failed to communicate properly with the practitioners and consequently alienated them with regard to the concept of the lobon-gur mixture . |
| 13 | Then , still without speaking , Mr Dakin moved unhurriedly between the cows and a faint chink of metal sounded as he fastened the chain around Blossom 's neck . |
| 14 | But do we really know enough about the whys and wherefores of racism ? |
| 15 | In the thirteenth century the decoration of manuscripts was passing out of the hands of the religious houses to artists grouped together within the towns and working for patrons both lay and ecclesiastical . |
| 16 | He moved purposefully up the stairs and began to feel faint . |
| 17 | In freedom , he managed to hide away in the wilds and educate himself . |
| 18 | The advance was to have been made during the hours of darkness and across country , keeping away from the roads and lanes . |
| 19 | He had walked the length of the state , his waterskin slung over his shoulder , keeping away from the roads and the gangcults . |
| 20 | Then she looked across at Burun , smiled brilliantly , and lashed the st'lyan across the barrel so that it charged away through the trees and out on to the plain . |
| 21 | There , suspended just above the domes and minarets of the old city , a perfect silver crescent could be seen shining out over the rooftops . |
| 22 | The piano appears to be located just behind the strings and in correct dynamic relationship throughout . |
| 23 | A ten year Forestry development Plan was initiated in 1973 , and it was organised largely within the institutions and objectives of Saemol Undong , which emphasised effectively a broad-based approach to achieving rural welfare , an incremental step-by-step planning by villagers for their own village with an emphasis on short-term gains in income , and adequate government back-up services . |
| 24 | Rose helped Maggie to write away for the forms and then to fill in the forms when they came . |
| 25 | You descend further through the trees and turn left along the forest road to meet a tarmac road . |
| 26 | The melting snow dripped mournfully from the trees and the slope leading down from the moor was a mass of little rivulets , cascading down to run into Hodge Beck . |
| 27 | ‘ But I 'll be able to come home in the evenings and you can teach me the things I need to know , ’ said Endill . |
| 28 | Sometimes when I 've come home from the pictures and I let myself in , it 's so quiet I 'd nearly talk to the statues for company . ’ |
| 29 | German flares were lighting up the sky behind me as I hurried along the road , keeping close to the houses and in their shadows as much as possible . |
| 30 | He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part . |